Glenn Frazier
Glenn D. Frazier joined the U.S. Army on July 3, 1941. Requesting duty in the Philippines, Frazier was assigned to the 75th Ordinance Company in Manila. His job as a sergeant was to get ammunition to and from the front lines at the Battle of the Points in January 1942.
After being captured in Bataan on April 9, 1942, at the age of 17, Frazier spent 3 1⁄2 years in POW Camps O`Donald and Billibid, Philippines. While a POW, Frazier survived the Bataan Death March that lasted six days and seven nights with no food and very little water. On the morning of September 3, 1945, 21 POWs, including Frazier, located in a Japanese Prison Camp 500 miles from Tokyo, escaped by train to Tokyo. After riding trains all night, they arrived at General MacArthur’s Headquarters in Yokohama, Japan.
Frazier holds the Medal of Honor, the Bronze Star and four Purple Hearts among his many military awards and is featured in Ken Burn’s Frontline Films, World War II Documentaries.